Newest ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff Is the Best Since the Original

Emerson Miller/Paramount+ Eight years after the premiere of Yellowstone , Taylor Sheridan’s scripts have become so formulaic that it’s fair to wonder if they aren’t being penned by an AI assistant via prompts like “herding cattle,” “roping steers,” “horseback riding at sunrise,” “greedy corporate villains,” “beer-drinking at honky-tonk bars,” “homicide cover-ups at night,” and “revealing shots of young blondes’ derrieres.” Those and a host of additional hackneyed elements are present in Dutton Ranch (May 15, on Paramount+), a sequel-by-way-of-spinoff to its flagship ancestor that follows Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) as they strut, brood, and intensely love each other while attempting to forge a new path for themselves and their 19-year-old son Carter (Finn Little). Read more at The Daily Beast.

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